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Colliding worldviews
I have finally taken to podcasts. (Which should signal to everyone that podcasts will now NOT be a great medium of communication.)
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In Advent you must face the darkness
If there is anything I am learning in this season of Advent it is to allow the darkness to do something in me.
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What the wilderness teaches us
The men’s Bible study I am a part of at my church is going through the Gospel of Matthew. We’re just getting started so I was reflecting on Matthew 3 this week. John the Baptist comes along and Matthew identifies him as the one crying out in the wilderness. As we were discussing this Isaiah passage where Matthew draws from…
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Our true fear
Our true fear as culturalized Christians is we like power and provision. We’re doing well. We’re in the spheres of influence. To give that up willingly is an abhorrent thought.
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The witness of the American Church and elections
This pastor is one I have as a “friend” on Facebook. I love reading his blog as well. His views on the American Church and elections are something I think should be heard. Of course, there is disagreement. But this interview is worth 20 or so minutes of listening.
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The road to Babylon
The past couple of weeks have been contemplative for me because of issues I’ve reflected on in the last few posts. This morning I woke up with the same thoughts. They were slightly different, but when I go back and read my last few posts, especially the longer one I linked to on the Daniel Generation, it was the Spirit…
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The worship demanded by the gods of this age
Our rigid ideologies may be couched in “sacred” terms at times, but we need to understand the liturgy of our culture. From the “right” to the “left” we are in liturgies to the different gods of our age. The demands are stringent. But to the “right” or the “left”, what is being sacrificed is the same thing: it is our children. …
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The question of “what next”
We are less than three weeks from a huge change in our lives. Our house is sold, the movers are scheduled, and we are wrapping up our time in Minneapolis. I am walking through my “lasts” in these final weeks.
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The Great Divorce of the Western Evangelical Church
Pope Francis has come out with an apostolic exhortation that is well worth the read. There is something for everyone to be mad at in this writing, as I have found in the writings of Benedict before him, and John Paul before him.
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